Neil Gaiman Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fall, Boys, Men

• He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fun, Silly, Apples

• And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Apples, Literature, Opinion

• He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Hard Work, Angel

• The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Erotic, Bananas

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.52, Hachette UK

• A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Two, Numbers

• For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

  Neil Gaiman

  Library, Littles, Corn

  "Neil Gaiman: Libraries are cultural 'seed corn'". Interview with Toby Litt, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2014.

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